The activist sentenced to 1,000 lashes in Saudi Arabia underwent his first flogging despite the country's Supreme Court being ordered to review the case,
Raif Badawi, 31, was due to undergo the second of 20 rounds of 50 lashes on Friday morning,

Earlier this month the Islamic State published its sharia-law approved rules for how to treat slaves. These rules are not an aberration and are not an innovation. Rather, they are merely enacting long-held legalist understandings of slavery similarly

A British-Iranian has been sentenced by a court in Tehran to spend a year in prison as punishment for trying to attend a men's volleyball match.
Ghoncheh Ghavami, 25, an alumni of SOAS university in London, was told her fate on Sunday by a closed court

A pregnant woman was stoned to death Tuesday by her own family outside a courthouse in the Pakistani city of Lahore for marrying the man she loved.
Arranged marriages are the norm among conservative Pakistanis and hundreds of women are murdered every

Across the country where there are large Muslim communities, there are now Sharia councils. Some seem to discriminate against women in different ways. Women are required to produce two male witnesses, and it costs a woman at least £400 to get an Islamic

Islamic law is to be effectively enshrined in the British legal system for the first time under guidelines for solicitors on drawing up "Sharia compliant" wills.
Under ground-breaking guidance, produced by The Law Society, High Street solicitors will

An alleged plot to oust some Birmingham head teachers and make their schools adhere to more Islamic principles is being investigated
A letter detailing the plan, known as "Operation Trojan Horse" claims responsibility for leadership changes at four

Rogers is not the first Western woman to marry an Arab man and find out how few rights she had once removed to a Middle East country that abides by sharia. She recalled of her escape to Israel. "Four years of hell was finally over."

It's hard to believe, but a 15-year-old rape survivor in the Maldives has been sentenced to be whipped 100 times in public! Let's put an end to this lunacy by hitting the government where it hurts: the tourism industry.

the judge ruled the few months al-Ghamdi spent in prison since his arrest in November was sufficient punishment. He has reportedly agreed to pay £31,000 ($50,000). Sharia law says a parent can't be punished for killing his own child but outrage growing.

Under Iranian sharia, certain crimes such as sodomy, rape, theft, fornication, apostasy and consumption of alcohol for the third time are considered to be ''claims of God'' and they therefore have mandatory death sentences. The 2 have been whipped 160x.

When Somalia Islamist groups state they are determined that Somalia be ruled under strict sharia Muslim law, and they aren't only talking about declaring war against the country's transitional government, but increasingly any fun or entertainment the popu